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was indisposed, the consequence that in the quarter ending 25th 
March, 1613, the charge rose to £74 17s. On the 20 April she 
went to Bath, and then for the quarter ending at Midsummer we 
have £83 18s. Then came the second visit to Bath and for the 
quarter ending 29 September a modest consumption amounting 
to £92 9s. 6d., or at the rate per annum of a pounda day.* Yet 
she survived a little while, but remaining always in weak health. 
After passing by one year, it was determined in the summer of 
1615 again to try the Bath. 
In a short account within a limited space, it is hardly possible 
to attempt a picture of the rumbling coach, the often bad roads, 
the slow progress, the many attendants and their followers, making 
up the cavalcade on these occasions. As too all had to be pro- 
vided for, their coming and passage by was not particularly liked. 
This journey of the Queen and that of the King for this year 
being known, a letter of 20 July, 1615, says, “this comes ill to 
“those countries they are to go through, who made petition to be 
“spared this year in respect of the hard winter and hitherto 
“extreme hot and dry summer, whereby cattle are exceeding poor 
‘and like to perish every where.”t Money too was short in the 
Treasury the receipts for the half year being assigned in advance, 
so that the Queen’s journey originally planned for March was 
postponed until cash could be found, it being arranged that she 
should be “ first served.”} She was thought now to be in danger 
of dropsy. 
Towards the end of July the Queen started, first stopping at 
Colbrook, only five miles from Windsor where lodgings had been 
prepared ; next at the Bear Inn, Reading, then to Newbury, then 
the Earl of Hertford’s at Tottenham prepared after ten days 
attention at the usual cost of £8 16s. 8d. A departure was here 
made from the direct route, for what must have been a pleasant 
* Treasurer of Chamber, fol. 6. + S. P. Dom., vol. 81, p. 17. 
tS. P. Dom., fol. 80, p. 38. 
